San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-08-27
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.


FERDINAND will not lack for soup ac-
cording to the Laredo Times which says:
Bulgaria Is in hot water and bone OF
contention between Germany and Rus
sia." Will Ferd invite the powers to his
mess?
The GOODNESS in the atmosphere this
morning indicates that Dallas has Sc
cured that cotton mill ard Alliance eX-
change, and that Fort Worth has put on
her refrigerator smile in consequence.
This refers exclusively to the smile,
not TO the refrigerator.
THURMAN despslrs Of convincing the
democratic party that he does not want
an office. Thurman in making this
declaration makes q mental reservation
OF the presidency. But lightning will
not strike there. 1t takes party with
brains TO nominate man like Thur
man.
The democratic foot pads who want 10
rob Roger Q. Mills OF his seat as repre-
sentative OF his congressional district,
are looking for pointers from Nose. Har-
rs Nose like the Moses Ofscripture, Will
not lead his prohibition hosts into Mills
promised land.
THE Seguin Record says: You see
very little in the San Antonio papers
about the drying up of the San Antonio
river at that place." Very true, and for
the all sufficient reason that there IL no
evidence that the river is drying up.
GEORGIA IS stirred up over the discOv.
cry that one Of its strong prohIbitIODist
parsons OF the Baptist church, located in
Atlanta, is something Of plagiarist.
Great cry and little wool. 1.-THE psrsOn
aforesaid can do better by giving some
other mans ideas is not this free
country.
VIRGINIA is not happy III the relations
existing between her courts and her con-
gressmen. Eustace Gibbons, ex con-
gresham OF Parkersburg, is in Jail for
contempt OF court, and Riddleberger
has not yet completed his term for the
same offense.
FIVE thousand union veterans In pro-
cession at Wheeling, Va, refused to
march under an arch from which Cleve-
lsrd's portrait was suspended, took
detoUr and dropped their colOrs while
passing the picture. There may be
something more than mere wind In this
opposition to Grover after all.
The action Of the democratic conven-
ton in Virginia, and OF the Malone con-
ventiOD, are good proof OF the growth
OF protection principles in the body of
the democratic party. Virginia plainly
notifies the free traders that she has no
use for any party that aligns itself with
an anti-prOtection sentiment.
TEXAS seems to have been very gen.
orally watered by the recent rains and
the promises for more are so encouraging
that every fellow with dude hat on his
csput sticks to his umbrella as closely
rs an eighteen year old kid to the arm
OF his best girl.
NEW YORK state seems determined to
try decoction Of politics in her re-
ligion, or of religion in her politics, or
q little OF both in not much of either.
Church l. attempting to run state, and
the last state OF that state, If the run is
made, will be worse than the first.
The democratic gall ducts which have
been opened upon the head of Riddle
berger, will not produce in the mind OF
that senator any special glow OF alice
tiOn for the party whose future Is not
wholly relieved from the grip of his SEN
stOrial fingers.
The Galveston News turns prophet
and predicts that the next move of the
prOhibitlOnists would be for a cOnstitu-
tiOnal convention. There be many rea-
sons why a constitutional convention In
Texas Is to be desired, but to put pro-
hlbitiOn article in the constitution is not
one of them.
The Kentucky idea does not suit the
democracy, and the staT-eyed goddess
who suckles Henri Is informed that
Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama.
and West Virginia may be all put
down in the list of doubtful states il
they are TO be seated on a free trade
platform. The democracy show signs
Of general debility, and 1883 will make
them deathly sick. They have the
shakes now.
GLADSToNE'S resolution to memorabilia
the queen against the proclamation OF
the league was lost 272 to 1872. The con-
servstive party had issued the most Wig
OrOus whip since 1876 and every member
was in place. The result shows very
favOrably for the increase Of GladstOne's
influence in the commons. One year
ago the conservatives ordinarily COM
handed majority of 10 and now go is
the most that they can muster under
the most strenuous party demands.
This decrease of Salisbury's majority on
a matter solely and purify Irish, and in
which the consistency of political
action pleaded strongly for an adverse
vote, speaks volumes for the progress
that the Irish cause has made in the
English parliament in few months. 1t
is not however from the present com
mons but from the next, through the
change in English sentiment, that the
great results are to be looked for. That
this change is radical and general seems
evidenced in all the late elections and
good ground is afforded for the belief
that the government will not be able to
hold together when matters purely
national, and questions of foreign policy,
divide the liberal uniOnists from their
anti-Irish allies.
GEORGIA the immaculate. that by the
sweeping provisions OF the Glenn bill
renders every teacher in Sunday school
in which a black and a white child are
taught liable to wear a ball and chain
for months and pay a fine of $500,
Georgia has developed so much bald
headed iniquity under her infamous
convict lease system that the governor
has ordered the lessees to show cause
why their leases should not be annulled.
Examination shows that the most hOrri-
BILE cruelties have been practiced upon
these convicts. Cruelties greater than
were inflicted upon the old galley slave
of Ancient Rome and Modern France.
COnvicts have been whipped for max
ing public or giving private information
concerning the abuses to which they
we're subjected. On examination or
dered by the governor, the backs OF
men have been found cut and gashed
with knives as we'll as lacerated with
whips. The reports made by prison
physicians have been suppressed for